Of course you are right - you can make any dog into a vicious one by bad treatment on purpose.
What the problem is, is that in the large majority of these stories, these pit bulls have NOT undergone that kind of abuse and maltreatment. They are family dogs, people are ‘shocked’ that they did it, they never thought thier dog would do this, etc.
So with respect to this particular breed of dog, it appears they do not have to be abused and beaten up in order for this kind of unpredictable dangerous behavior to occur.
What galls me in re reading this trash is the fact the writer has her panties in a knot about how many babies died because of Pit Bulls. Why dont she write about how many babies died because of abortion?